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asojfdowghon Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

> Microsoft gave ASUS a deal they couldn't refuse.

and afaik others too, to flood the market with more "practical" options than the XO, so the XO wouldn't take off in other parts of the world

can't have computer classes without having microsoft computer classes, after all. Gotta get em' while they are young.

https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/journal/past-issues/issue-... https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...

asojfdowghon Ask HN: How do you change your budget around a big raise?

budget the same, 3 months isn't enough to say its going to stay there for a year.

Good dinners are more affordable than fancy ones (even if you eat out for both, you get more for your money at an "average" restaurant than a top class one that exists only to show other people how much money one has).

I'd mainly focus on the things that take up at minimum 1/5th of your lives: Bed quality is nice to improve, keyboard/mouse/screen/computer, shoes, etc.

whatever amount spent, just make sure your savings are always increasing, the faster the better, but don't feel the need to over-do it.

but past that, invest a portion of your savings, since banks rarely meet inflation rates.

Index funds, housing, crypto if you feel daring, etc, don't invest too much (especially if monkeypox becomes a full-blown thing), but also don't invest too little, (or you are basically losing money over time)

and then through that, your retirement will arrive earlier

asojfdowghon Signal: You were the chosen one [video]

https://xmpp.org/rfcs/ I count 23 active

also 6122 is replaced with 7622, updated rarely, but updated often enough it seems.

I never mentioned "core" for a reason, I used the words "to get an idea of how to implement a client" for a reason. perhaps "recommend" is wrong, but they still list 23 RFCs as relevant.

And I'm talking clients mainly as in pre-existing ones, where every landed XEP might need to be implemented if its codified for a given year, even if its removed the very next year.

And by fact of XMPP being still updated, means parity chasing is still happening.

I'm eager for IRCv3 to end as opposed to becoming a living specification, because no one of any popular client seems even slightly interested in chasing parity anymore, the constant slow trickle of things to change must be so insanely wearing.

I don't disagree with "its the best we've got" but when other areas of software development have like, 20 best-we've-gots, but live text communication has 2 best-we've-gots, I would love to see that change, despite not having the skills to do so (but I plan to try regardless!)

asojfdowghon Signal: You were the chosen one [video]

the examples given (matrix, activitypubkindathing) both have major players (matrix, mastodon) that move fast enough that everyone else is constantly chasing after parity with them, which IMO kinda re-enforces moxie's point.

As far as I can tell, if you want to do fully open and parity, you got either IRC, the joke being still lack of parity, no client can agree on using the same E2E encryption method, etc. Or XMPP, once again, 5million extensions to the spec (the XSF recommends reading through 23 seperate RFCs to get an idea of how to implement a client).

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So, if you have issues with the current options, and concrete ideas of how to solve them, please free us all from the hell that is current open communications. This isn't a "just fork it", its an earnest plea.

asojfdowghon VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC

And there is a hell lot of complaints about cheaters on hypixel, no?

asojfdowghon VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC

Aimbotting/wallhacks are relevant, as there are games within VRChat where those are relevant.

Due to starcraft 2's design, defogging hacks were plentiful.

Anyone who has played TF2 for a significant amount of time has run into hackers landing impossible shots, e.g. through walls

before EAC, there has been VAC (along with two separate community-ran anti-cheat services for source games), Battleye, Warden, etc. It seems universal amongst those involved, that client-side anti cheat helps way more than you expect.

asojfdowghon VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC

> These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

never seen that work in practice.

> They should know which client (or at least that a modified client) is being used.

That's the modified client's job, not the original client's job. if the modified client is intentionally trying to be hidden, then its not going to show itself. Which is the cause of the whole everything

> Extensions

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/what-is-udon already exists

> But if there's already a vibrant community of mods out there

is there a vibrant community of mods? besides, they have actively told people to bugger off if they use a custom client for a while now, by the sounds of it (e.g. the two mods I could find, both said that you will likely get banned for using them)

asojfdowghon Embed is in C23

include is with regards to the source platform, not the target platform la, you (generally) need a filesystem to compile, but you don't need a filesystem to run what you compiled

asojfdowghon Embed is in C23

doesn't LLVM only cover a smidge of the weird platforms, if that?

Like, it doesn't even cover ESP32 chips, despite attempts to get support into LLVM since 2019.

point being, they can't leverage LLVM

asojfdowghon Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Get over it: The local preschool is a Linux and open source company these days: their website is hosted on a linux box.

Their open source code editor is actually closed source, I'd tell you to check yourself, but you legally are not allowed to reverse engineer it either.

And it pushed the open opensource alternative, Atom, out of the running.

dotNET? Obviously in response to the progress of mono, which now supports .NET 4.7 (current .NET is 6), C# 7 (current is C# 10)

I don't know if lagging 2-3 versions behind is normal for mono, however, if they are currently "Sponsored by Microsoft", shouldn't the situation get better?

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the article lists the copilot issue, and the .net bull, that's 2 of the 3 open-source things microsoft directly does. paying lip service to a kernel, does not make a company an open source company.

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Azure runs linux on their boxes because the Windows-only Azure in every other universe, closed its doors due to nearly no customers

asojfdowghon On Scapegoating the Unvaccinated: Analysis of Propaganda During the Pandemic

> Well this is a semantic and socio-political question and not a scientific/medical one

You submitted an article from the "Journal for the Critical Study of Society", why would you expect medical questions, or medical discussion?

asojfdowghon On Scapegoating the Unvaccinated: Analysis of Propaganda During the Pandemic

> “Unvaccinated” is a new category of social identification that has been naturalized by COVID-19 propaganda and did not exist in the popular imagination prior to the year 2021.

Zero research done, then?

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A Journal that has had zero releases.

asojfdowghon Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream

Of course, this is a silly solution, but...

Since you can buy seperate keyboard parts... and if you don't mind a bit of drilling / replacing some keys with custom keys / manual fixing of damaged traces on the pcbs...

Just drill a hole in the keyboard, file it off, and buy a trackpoint module from ebay, It'd probably work well enough!

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that aside, making an expansion card which has a trackpoint on it, or notching it into just above the keyboard area, would probably be the most doable options, without needing the company to catch up

asojfdowghon I regret my website redesign

If you hired a mechanic to regas your car's AC, and they give the car back with a full realignment, detailing, etc, all at prices you wouldn't have ever paid in the first place, you would be driving away without even thinking of paying, probably to the nearest ombudsman or law firm.

but at least that mechanic probably would have done the re-gassing first.

asojfdowghon TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting

its a comment section / blog post, not a paper that needs violent peer review

asojfdowghon Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)

From the flow graph, the film grain estimation is done on the difference between the de-noised video, and the original. So it only picks up the difference that the denoiser creates.

> and estimating the film grain parameters from flat regions of the difference between the noisy and de-noised versions of the video sequence.

asojfdowghon Film grain synthesis in AV1 (2019)

the synthesized noise only covers what is removed by the denoiser, so it all adds up to what the input is (assuming the left-in noise makes it through the encoder)

asojfdowghon Crimes against transhumanity

uploading yourself doesn't mean you transfer across, its just another you, except you gain nothing from the other you, because only the original you is you.

So, are you willing to kill yourself, to live forever? You will never experience anything ever again, for an life of infinite experiences that arn't yours except in name.

I wouldn't!

The potential of "sliding" one's mind (replicate the brain's work piecewise to maintain ~1x consciousness at all times) besides.

Easier to just cure brain degeneration.

asojfdowghon Crimes against transhumanity

is the point "is he lying?"

I mean shocking a person to death I don't get, unless you assume its a `mv` and not a `cp`, but I guess thats besides the point.

asojfdowghon The ten worst years for the 60/40 portfolio, and where we are now

Learnt a lot about how pandemics can affect stock prices. Just waiting for the second once-in-a-lifetime event to put what I learned into practice.

asojfdowghon Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22258856/amazon-ring-part...

Its not an accident, its the entire reason why they make the doorbells

asojfdowghon Australia’s New Anti-Encryption Law Is Unprecedented; Undermines Global Privacy

(2019) but afaik no changes since.

Worth noting, the laws apply not just to businesses but also citizens, as in, if an Australian citizen works at your company, they may be compelled by the Australian government to backdoor your company's systems without the knowledge of others.

As an Australian, please don't hire us.

asojfdowghon NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

ah, the time machine method then

Well good luck hard-forking backwards into the past to re-write commit messages.

asojfdowghon NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

ok, how?

ok, why can that method that you choose not be applied to nim?

asojfdowghon NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

So nimskull is planning on rewriting all previous commit messages to be more legible? Or is that unreasonable?

Assuming unreasonable, isn't it unreasonable to expect someone to completely break git history for everyone, and or invent time travel?

Seems to be an absurd amount of condemnation over a mistake that did far less than hurting no-one

asojfdowghon Body Margin 8px

Margins collapse

if you have h1 with top margin 10px, and body margin 8px, it "adds" up to 10px, not 18px.

Once you write article-based sites, without a random navbar that people don't want, then it can become quite nice

asojfdowghon Why can't we have raw UDP in JavaScript?

Have a page load up a script from <nonce>.relevantdomain.tld, once the script sends back a packet to <nonce>.relevantdomain.tld, have the dns settings change subdomain to 192.168.0.1, and then etc

the war between safe things and unsafe things is endless, so we shouldn't be adding a massive unsafe thing and then bodging patches onto it to make it "safer" than completely unsafe

asojfdowghon [dead]

abortion access in ohio is bad enough that people had to travel anyways regardless of recent rulings

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> Republican governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, mentioned as a potential running mate to Donald Trump in 2024, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that she found it to be “incredible” that “nobody’s talking about the pervert, horrible and deranged individual that raped a 10-year-old”.

What happened to not giving fame/power to the criminal?

asojfdowghon In defence of garlic in a jar

I only have the freshest kipper during breakfast.

To care much about garlic itself, when the flavor is 99% based on how long you heat it, would be a pinnacle of snobbishness.

plus, though I'm not certain, doesn't the process of breaking down garlic change the flavor itself? freshly broken down garlic vs jarred broken down garlic, the latter I'd imagine to be "richer"

asojfdowghon An open, standards-based, decentralized identity ecosystem for people

> DIF members are actively working on protocols and implementations that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

I just want a public key approach, why can't anyone make a group about just doing a keypair id approach